The President's News Conference
02/12/1947
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No, there's no reason for me to see him.
In this celebration let us join with the peoples of the other free nations of the world in recognition of our common pur...
It would have involved us in all-out war in the Far East, and we have been strenuously trying to avoid that all the time...
This ceremony could be no more than a magnificent burial.